On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 11:30 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 22:40:09 -0800 > Ben Koenig <[email protected]> dijo: > > >> Oh wait, it won't. I had been running the script over and over today > >> to set up the message window, but I had been running it as me (jjj). > >> Just now I tried it with sudo and the message failed: > >> > >> No protocol specified > >> Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused > >> gxmessage: unable to initialize GTK > > >Use the $DISPLAY variable to launch on a target X server. Since you on > >a desktop system you probably only have X running once, so try > >something like this > >DISPLAY=:0 gxmessage <args go here> > > > >you can echo $DISPLAY to find out what display is currently running. > >Setting the env variable before any graphical command can be used to > >specify which x server/screen you want it to be displayed on. cron > >jobs run outside of X, so $DISPLAY is usually unset. > > Thanks, but it still isn't working. I started by setting DISPLAY=:0 as > in your example, but when it didn't work I did: > > echo $DISPLAY > :0.0 > > And then I changed it to DISPLAY=:0.0, but it still doesn't work. > > It sounds like you're onto the solution, but it's too late and I can't > think any more. I'll hit it again in the morning. > If the $DISPLAY variable doesn't work, then you can probably use the -display option. I just tried this on my system, and as it turns out you also need to set your Xauthority as well $ XAUTHORITY=/home/<username>/.Xauthority gxmessage -display :0 "Hello, world!" Setting display on it's own isn't enough. _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
